"With three novels and two short story collections published, Kevin Barry has steadily established his stature as one of the finest writers not just in Ireland but in the English language. All of his prodigious gifts of language, character, and setting in these eleven exquisite stories transport the reader to an Ireland both timeless and recognizably modern. Shot through with dark humor and the uncanny power of the primal and unchanging Irish landscape, the stories in That Old Country Music represent some of the finest fiction being written today."-- Provided by publisher.

The coast of Leitrim --Deer season -- Ox Mountain death song -- Old stock -- Saint Catherine of the Fields -- Toronto and the state of grace -- Who's-dead McCarthy -- Extremadura (until night falls) -- That old country music -- Roethke in the bughouse.